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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2015
Applicant:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Inventors:
Namsuk Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Yong Seouk Choi, Daejeon, KR;
Assignee:
ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Daejeon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 28/16 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 28/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for allocating a resource in a heterogeneous network environment are provided. In a heterogeneous network environment in which small cells and a macrocell are mixed, a macro base station divides an entire frequency band that is allocated to a corresponding macrocell into a plurality of Frequency Partitions (FPs). The macro base station allocates some of the plurality of FPs to small cells that are included in the macrocell.